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World Mobile strives to connect the unconnected (half the world)

World Mobile strives to connect the unconnected (half the world)

World Mobile chief executive Micky Watkins joins Katie to talk about connecting the unconnected, in Sub-Saharan Africa to begin with, by running a hybrid mobile network using ground and aerial assets.

The mobile network operator noted half of the world is unconnected to the internet, with a billion children around the world wanting to go to school but cannot because they don't have a registered identity. This is part of the problem WM wants to solve.